The mysterious employee at Max Branning’s offices who couldn’t work a photocopier has certainly piqued Lauren’s interest in EastEnders – but is everything as it seems or is it all just a set up by Max as he continues his slow revenge game?

With Lauren being bored in her relationship with Steven Beale, she couldn’t help but smile when her new admirer left her his phone number. And, in scenes next week, she can’t resist contacting him and looking him up on her laptop.

As Lauren confides in her pal Whitney Carter, she is advised to fight for her current relationship rather than looking to cheat on Steven with another man. But the man at Max’s workplace is under Lauren’s skin and before long, she has invited Whitney out for drinks with the clear intention of bumping into him.

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But how far is Lauren prepared to go – is she really going to betray Steven as temptation comes knocking?

Fans are already speculating that Max is engineering Lauren’s meeting with his colleague as a way of hurting Steven as part of his revenge against the Beale family.

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So should Lauren be concerned or is the man’s attraction to her completely organic and genuine?

It’s hard to know who to trust in this story but that just makes it all the more intriguing.

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With Max also reaching out to Steven to ‘build bridges’, the plot thickens further. With Max reeling Steven in, Lauren is busy contemplating infidelity with another man – what a mess!

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Theories are coming thick and fast with some speculating that the guy might be one of Max’s bosses and could be the one who leads Lauren to discover Max’s dastardly plot. Others think that Max is prepared to make his own daughter suffer given that he recently expressed his disappointment in her for not defending him when he went to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.